Comments on: Oops! Twins retract offer charging $15 to watch batting practicehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/04/09/you-can-pay-15-to-watch-the-twins-take-batting-practice/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:56:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: historiophiliachttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/04/09/you-can-pay-15-to-watch-the-twins-take-batting-practice/#comment-471361
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:54:46 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471361Update: Too bad, Gleeman.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:00:21 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471344You know, I sent out a press release early by accident today, too. But mine wasn’t insulting. What did I do wrong?
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:42:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471334I suspect that the decreasing amount of season ticket holders were pissed about the early access as that is a limited perk that they enjoy with a much larger overall commitment to the twins.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:42:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471333You’re probably right, and I think the Indians stopped letting the fans in right when Jacobs Field was opened. But as a kid, at old Municipal Stadium, they allowed the fans in much earlier and I remember watching batting practice as a kid, for both teams and it was part of the awe of being at a live game. Good memories.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:30:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471329It is, but typically the Twins (as are most/all home teams) are done with BP by the time gates open on weekdays (which is 1 1/2 hrs. before first pitch at Target Field). This promotion was going to allow fans to enter the ballpark 45 min. before gates opened to everyone else so they could watch the Twins hit.

However, as I mentioned above, you can save yourself the $15 and just be at the ballpark when gates open on weekends, as gates then open 2 hours early and you catch most of the Twins BP anyway.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:44:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471217Every time I take my boy to a Reds road game we go early and watch BP. It’s always been free for visiting fans and it’s a great chance to get a ball, which is pretty much the highlight of the summer for my son. Just don’t count on a player throwing a ball to you unless you’re an obnoxious jerk or a pretty girl. If I had a dollar for every time Johnny Cueto ignored my 6 year old to throw a ball to a drunk 21 year old girl, well I’d have at least 3 dollars.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:41:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471215Well yeah, you gotta reward the best fans in baseball somehow.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:27:03 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471206The key part of the phrase is watching the TWINS take batting practice. Anyone who shows up early is always able to watch the visitors practice simply because of how early they open the gates.

And as mentioned below, they open even earlier on weekends and special occasions. I caught a ball from Jim Thome on opening day 2010. It was the first game at Target Field so I went in 3 hours early like everyone else.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:55:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471182Cardinals games have always had free batting practice
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:42:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471167maybe it shouldn’t matter, but this and the fact that the stadium is publically funded is going to really rub people the wrong way. And if you want kids to grow up baseball fans wanting to go TO THE STADIUM, free BP is the least you can do.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:39:28 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471166The $15 the Twins charge is a GREAT deal when compared to the Astros $45. The odds the Astros will hit a SINGLE Home Run during batting practice is EXTREMELY remote.
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:32:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471156No thanks. The only Twins hits I want to see are during the game (no matter how long that takes). Go Twins!
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:23:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393212#comment-471145While i don’t agree with a $15 charge to enter early, what most of you commenting are missing is that they’re letting you in early to watch the home team hit BP. When they normally let you in, it’s the away teams turn to hit. The “Big selling point” is catching the home team hit BP.